10 Pumpkin beauty products to get you pumped up
Don’t just bring out your pumpkins for carving during Halloween. With our round up of products, you’ll be able to enjoy pumpkin season all year round.
If pumpkin spiced latte gets you excited for the holiday season, it might interest you to know that pumpkins have great beauty benefits as well. What makes pumpkin so special? For starters did you know that pumpkin is a fruit and not a vegetable, contrary to popular belief? In fact it belongs to the family of berries. This fruit is loaded with alpha hydroxyl acids as well as vitamin A and C.
Here’s how you can incorporate pumpkins into your beauty regimen.
AS AN EXFOLIANT
Pumpkins serve as great exfoliators to get ride of dead skin cells and to soften the skin. For added benefit, mix a few tablespoons of mashed pumpkin with yoghurt to create a paste. Apply this mixture to your face and allow it to sit for a few minutes. Gently scrub the mixture away using circular motions. Continual use of this scrub will help in brightening your complexion.
AS A BODY MASK
Pamper your body with the beauty benefits of pumpkin by creating a body mask. Simply mix 1/2 cup of pumpkin puree with coconut oil. Apply this mixture generously to clean skin and massage well. Rinse off with warm water and enjoy well moisturized skin.
AS A FACIAL MASK
Pumpkin is a great beauty ingredient to promote cell regeneration. Mixing pumpkin, egg whites, yoghurt and a dash of honey will create a facial mask which can be used once a week to brighten your face. The mixture of pumpkin and honey helps to lighten stubborn marks. The ingredients used are suitable for all skin types especially acne-prone skin types.
If DIY products are not your cup of tea, you can still indulge in the benefits of using pumpkin with our round up of pumpkin-infused beauty products in the gallery above.
Perin Sidhu
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